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CLAWAR 2013 16th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots
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CLAWAR 2013 Organizing Committees
General Chair: Kenneth J Waldron, University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and Stanford University (USA)
Program Chair: M. Osman Tokhi, University of Sheffield, UK International Advisory Committeee Chair:
Gurvinder S. Virk , University of Gavle, Sweden
Local Organising Committee Chair: Dikai Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
International Advisory Committee:
H. Levent Akin, Turkey Bryan Bridge, UK Ming Xie, Singapore
Manuel Armada, Spain Noah J. Cowan, USA H. Levent Akin, Turkey
Abul K M Azad, USA Hideo Fujimoto, Japan Manuel Armada, Spain
Karsten Berns, Germany Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poland Abul K M Azad, USA
Philippe Bidaud, France Giovanni Muscato, Italy
Local Organizing Committee:
Dikai Liu, University of Technology, Sydney Gavin Paul, University of Technology, Sydney
Gabriel Aguirre-Ollinger, University of Technology, Sydney
Phillip D Quin, University of Technology, Sydney
Gamini Dissanayake, University of Technology, Sydney
Surya P. N. Singh, University of Queensland
Ian Manchester, University of Sydney
International Program Committee
Muhammad Abdallah, USA Yiannis Gatsoulis, UK Denny Oetomo, Australia
Majid N. Ahmadabadi, Iran Khaled M. Goher, Oman Dilip Kumar Pratihar, India
Md Shafiul Alam, Bangladesh Ambarish Goswami, USA Jinwu Qian, China
Fareg M Aldbrez, UK Valery Gradetsky, Russia Michael Rachkov, Russia
Ronald Arkin, USA Roderich Gross, UK Mario Ribeiro, Portugal
John S Baras, USA Yisheng Guan, China Hernando Rodriguez, Columbia
Faiz Benamar, France Satyandra K. Gupta, USA Vitor Santos, Portugal
Bishakh Bhattacharya, India Aarne Halme, Finland Tariq P. Sattar, UK
John Billingsley, Australia Neil Heyes, UK Klaus Schilling, Germany
Fabio Bonsignorio, Italy Alamgir Hossain, UK James Schmiedeler, USA
Roger V. Bostelman, USA David Howard, UK Hasan Shaheed, UK
Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf, UK Ion Ion, Romania H. M Amin Shamsudin, Malaysia
Stephen Cameron, UK Rozita Jailani, Malaysia Sanjay K. Sharma, UK
Hong Cheng, China Ray Jarvis, Australia Nazmul H. Siddique
Xuedong Cheng, China Endre E. Kadar, UK Filipe Silva, Portugal
Christine Chevallerau, France Petko Kiriazov, Bulgaria Mirosław Skibniewski, USA
Daisuke Chugo, Japan Vijay Kumar, USA Leif Steinicke, Belgium
Holk Cruse, Germany Dirk Lefeber, Belgium Yuegang Tan, China
Abbas Dehghani, UK M. Anthony Lewis, USA László Vajta, Hungary
Pablo G de Santos, Spain Chen Li, USA Anton Vitko, Slovakia
Rüdiger Dillmann, Germany Juan Lopez-Coronado, Spain Ping Wang, China
Tony J. Dodd Hongxu Ma, China Keigo Watanabe, Japan
Sanja Dogramadzi, UK Jose T. Machado, Portugal Shane Xie, New Zealand
Steven Dubowsky, USA Lino Marques, Portugal Rong Xiong, China
Max Suell Dutra, Brazil Rasha Massoud, Syria Ahmet Yigit, Kuwait
Ashish Dutta, India Hiromi Mochiyama Zhaowei W Zhong, Singapore
Luigi Fortuna, Italy Zaharuddin Mohamed, Malaysia Changjiu J Zhou, Singapore
Yili Fu, China Seungbin Moon, Korea Teresa Zielinska, Poland
Elena Garcia, Spain Taro Nakamura, Japan
Welcome to Sydney! The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is located on an urban campus close to the downtown business district. As such it is easily accessible from any direction. The campus is close to Central Railway Station. It is bounded on the south side by Broadway, which is the major traffic artery from the center of the city that runs to the west. It is intersected by Harris Street that is a major road running south from the Pyrmont district that adjoins the harbor, toward the airport. Located on Broadway near Harris Street is a tall square tower, dark grey in color, with UTS in large letters on top. That is Building 1. It is visible from most any direction in the vicinity of campus, and serves as a useful landmark.
The campus can be reached by a 20 minute taxi ride from the airport. Alternatively, you can take the train. There is a station in the north end of the airport terminal. A ticket to Central costs around $15. Go four stops to Central Station. If you have luggage note that there is an elevator at the extreme north end of the platform. Take the elevator down to the concourse and follow the signs to the Western Forecourt. Cross the large open area and exit toward Railway Square/George Street. As you leave the station look to the left. You should be able to see UTS Building 1.
The campus can be reached from the business district by means of any bus that runs up George Street past Railway Square. However, it is necessary to purchase prepaid bus tickets to use George Street buses. You can get a ticket from any newsagent. There are many hotels within walking distance of campus. The closest are the Mercure Sydney, which is on the UTS end of Railway Square, the Citigate Central Sydney, which is on Thomas St. adjacent to campus, and the Adina Executive, Central Sydney, which is on Railway Square closer to the station. The Darling Harbour hotels are accessible either by walking down Harris Street, or by walking down Quay Street past the Market City Building, depending whether they are on the left side, or the right side of the bay, respectively.
CLAWAR 2013 will be held in the Aerial Function Center, which is located on the top floor of one wing of UTS Building 10. To locate Building 10 go along Broadway in the direction away from downtown. You will pass Building 2 that simply appears to be a shoulder of Building 1. You will come to Jones Street, now closed off from vehicle access to Broadway. Turn right into Jones Street. You will notice construction sites on both sides of the street. Beyond the construction site on the left is Building 10. It has an antenna mast on the roof. Take any elevator up to Level 7. Turn left after you leave the elevator and cross the bridge over the atrium. You are now in the Aerial Function Centre.
We will be using the three meeting rooms nearest the front: the Harris, Jones and Broadway rooms (see below). We will also be using the Foyer. Coffee will be set up in the passage that provides access to the meeting rooms.
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Keynote Addresses
Exoskeleton Systems for Medical and Civilian Applications H. Kazerooni Professor, University of California at Berkeley Abstract For widespread use, exoskeletons must be accessible. The medical wearable robotic exoskeletons allow people with paraplegia or other mobility disorders to be upright and mobile, preventing secondary diseases and enhancing their quality of life. These systems will be used for in-home care and everyday use, as well as within hospitals and rehabilitation centers. The industrial wearable robotic systems minimize spinal compression forces of workers who repeat various maneuvers on the job. These devices will be used in auto assembly plants, factories, manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, warehouses, and delivery services. These systems decrease the severity and number of work-related injuries, while enhancing worker safety. The quest to develop accessible exoskeleton orthotic systems suggests less hardware while placing more emphasis on the intelligence and cleverness during both the design stage and the device operation. This talk will describe new engineering developments to realize accessible exoskeleton systems. Biography Dr. Kazerooni is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory. The laboratory’s mission is to develop fundamental scientific and engineering principles on robotics, control sciences, exoskeletons, and bioengineering. Dr. Kazerooni is also the founder of Ekso Bionics. Most of the developed technologies in this lab have found their ways to market. Prior to his research work on lower extremity exoskeletons, Dr. Kazerooni led his team to successfully develop robotics systems that enhance human upper extremity strength. The results of this work led to a new class of intelligent assist devices currently being used by workers worldwide for manipulating heavy objects in distribution centers and factories. Dr. Kazerooni holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and has published more than two hundred articles, delivered over 100 plenary lectures in the U.S. and internationally, and holds numerous pertinent patents and awards. As a noted authority on robotics, he is frequently profiled and quoted in the media.
TIRAMISU : FP7-‐Project for an integrated toolbox in Humanitarian Demining, focus on UGV, UAV, technical survey and close-‐in-‐detection Yvan Baudoin Royal Military Academy (RMA), Brussels, Belgium Abstract The TIRAMISU project aims at providing the foundation for a global toolbox that will cover the main mine action activities, from the survey of large areas to the actual disposal of explosive hazards, including mine risk education and training tools. After a short description of some tools, particular emphasis will be given to the possible use of UAV (or UGV/UAV) in Technical survey and/or Close-in-Detection.
Biography Title: Professor emeritus Position: Executive Head of the Unmanned Vehicle Centre, Scientific collaborator of the Polytechnic faculty, Former Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Organization: Polytechnic Faculty, Royal Military Academy (RMA), Brussels, Belgium Educational Background:
• Engineer Electro-Mechanical Engineering (Polytechnics, Brussel) • Post-Master Automatic/Robotics Engineering (Free University, Brussels) • Post-Master High Statistical Studies (University Paris VI) • Doctor Honoris Causa (Technical University of Iasi, Romania)
Areas of Interests & Contribution in the IT Field: • Head of Programming Division of Informatics Centre of Belgian Defense (79/83) • Member of NATO: Working Groups on Robotics, Human-Machine-Interfaces, Advanced
Electrical Mobility Control (85/2011) • Voting Member NATO/Research and Technical Organisation/Applied vehicle Technology
(2008-2011) • EDA (European Defense Agency) Project-Initiator in Multi-Robotics Cooperation (2005-
2009) (NMRS) • Head of IARP (International Advanced Robotics Program) Working Group on Robotics for
Humanitarian De-mining (HUDEM), Robotics for Risky Interventions (RISE) and official Belgian Representative in IARP (2001- 2011)
• FP6 – View-Finder Robotics Project (2006/2009) • Former Deputy Director of CLAWAR (Robotics) Association (2006- 2010) • EUREKA project TENEEST (2007- 2011) • FP7 – TIRAMISU Coordinator (2012-2015) • FP7 – ICARUS Member of Project management Team (2012-2015)
Muscle Coordination of Human Locomotion Marcus Pandy Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne Abstract Gait-analysis techniques have been used for more than a century to provide information on the kinematics and kinetics of human locomotion, yet the ability of this technique to quantify function is limited because it cannot be used to discern the actions of individual muscles. Computational modelling is the only means available to determine musculoskeletal loading non-invasively. Rapid increases in computing power combined with recent advances in imaging and more efficient algorithms for modelling the musculoskeletal system have enabled more detailed analyses of lower-limb muscle function. This presentation will illustrate how computational modelling has been used to study muscle coordination of human locomotion across a wide spectrum of walking and running speeds. The results have important applications in medicine (orthopaedics), sports (training and injury prevention) and robotics. Biography Marcus Pandy is appointed as Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne. He received a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he held the Joe J. King Professorship in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Engineers Australia. A focus of Pandy’s research is to combine biomechanical experiments and computational modelling to describe and explain muscle and joint function during daily activities such as gait.
Symbol-‐Based Communication between Humans and Humanoids Yoshihiko Nakamura University of Tokyo Abstract: Evolution of the human brain emerged by the pressure for communication. It is hard to believe that the pressure of evolution exempted the features of motion patterns from using them for communication. The communication skill is therefore anthropomorphic. The author would like to call the natural function of the brain to perceive, recognize, understand and respond to the human-like motion patterns, the Anthropomorphic Biological Equipment. The natural and general human-machine interface can be established by developing the similar function on the machine side, which we may call the Anthropomorphic Artificial Equipment. Our research started from the mathematical model of mirror neurons and continues to acquisition of semiology of human behaviors based on technologies such as unsupervised segmentation, iterative clustering, and construction of state transition network. The current research interests target to connect the behavioral semiology to the semiology of a natural language to develop a statistical system that evokes mutual association. This talk introduces the scope of our research and overviews the direction of research. Biography: Yoshihiko Nakamura received Doctor of Engineering Degree from Kyoto University in 1985. He was Assistant Professor of Kyoto University, from 1982 to 1987, and then Assistant and Associate Professor of University of California, Santa Barbara from 1987 to 1991. Since 1991, he has been with University of Tokyo, Japan, and is currently Professor at Department of Mechano-Informatics. Humanoid robotics, cognitive robotics, neuro musculoskeletal human modeling, biomedical systems, and their computational algorithms are his current fields of research. He is Fellow of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of Robotics Society of Japan, Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of World Academy of Arts and Science. Dr. Nakamura currently (2012-2015) serves as President of International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM). Dr. Nakamura is Foreign Member of Academy of Engineering Science of Serbia, and TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor of Technische Universität München.
Invited Lecture
Human Motion Capture, Localization and Interaction Based on Wearable Inertial and Contact Sensors Qilong Yuan and I-‐Ming Chen Abstract The human body kinematics and kinetics with the environment are the crucial features to correctly represent the human- environment interaction. This paper introduces the framework of the system and method to track the spatial human motion interaction with the environment. In this work, the wearable sensors systems are used to measure the kinematic parameters of the body segment and the contact with the environment. Though monitoring the contacts, and capturing the body joint movement, the
spatial location of the person can be updated during contacts. Methods on tracking the spatial location, velocity of a person are also discussed. In general, the system and method is able to fully track the spatial behavior, location and velocity of the person during various motions without volume and terrain limitations. The self-contained solution has litter restriction on the subject’s movement. It can be applied to many daily activity related applications such as sports and exercises, personal navigation and entertainment etc. Biography Prof. I-Ming Chen, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ASME, and General Chairman of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017, Singapore, is a world renowned roboticist with significant contributions in modular robotics, actuation design and wearable mechatronics. For the past 10 years, he had received funding of more than S$10 million in the related areas as Principal investigator. He is currently Director of Intelligent Systems Centre, which is co-funded by NTU and ST Engineering and also Director of Robotics Research Center of NTU. He received the B. S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1986, and M. S. and Ph. D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1989 and 1994 respectively. His research interests are in wearable sensors, human-robot interaction, reconfigurable automation, parallel kinematics machines (PKM), biomorphic underwater robots, and smart material based actuators. Prof. Chen has published more than 270 papers in refereed international journals and conferences as well as book chapters. He has been serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Mechanism and Machine Theory, and Robotica.
CLAWAR 2013 Program Sunday, July 14th 13.00 – 18.00 Registration open Venue: Aerial Conference Centre Lobby
18.00 – 20.00
Welcome Reception Aerial Conference Centre, 7th Floor, Building 10 235 Jones St., Broadway, Sydney 2007, University of Technology, Sydney
Monday, July 15th
09.00 – 09.20 Conference Opening Session Aerial Conference Centre, 7th Floor, Building 10 235 Jones St., Broadway, Sydney 2007
Keynote Address – 1 Session Chair: Gurvinder S. Virk
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
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09.20 – 10.20 4 8 Exoskeleton systems for medical and civilian applications Homayoon Kazerooni
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break Venue: Lobby
Session – A1: Multi-legged Robots Session Chair: Manuel Armanda
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Harris Room
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10.40 – 11.00 73 511 A1.1 - Actuator sizing for highly dynamic quadruped robots based on squat jumps and running trots Hamza Khan, Claudio Semini and Darwin Caldwell
11.00 – 11.20 25 215
A1.2 - Adaptive control of leg position for hexapod robot based on somatosensory feedback and organic computing principles Ahmad Al-Homsy, Jan Hartmann and Erik Maehle
11.20 – 11.40 30 761 A1.3 - Biped walking over rough terrain by adaptive ground reference map Ning Wu, Chee-Meng Chew and Aun Neow Poo
11.40 – 12.00 53 471
A1.4 - Design and prototyping of active-suspension-based 4-legged running robot with anteroposterior asymmetry in body Kyoko Nishimura, Kazuyoshi Tsutsumi, Shinji Sakio and Koji Shibuya
12.00 – 12.20 19 435
A1.5 - Development of hexapod robot supported mechanically using pneumatic rubber artificial muscles Hiroki Tomori, Yusuke Hirata, Taro Nakamura and Hisashi Osumi
12.20 – 12.40 100 709 A1.6 - Development of a quadruped robot model in simmechanics Manuel Silva, Ramiro Barbosa and Tomás Castro
Session – B1: Human Assist Devices Session Chair: Abbas Dehghani
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Jones Room
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10.40 – 11.00 74 93 B1.1 - Variable impedance control of a parallel robot for ankle rehabilitation Sheng Quan Xie and Yun Ho Tsoi
11.00 – 11.20 24 35
B1.2 - Development of a lower extremity exoskeleton system for walking assistance while load carrying Wan soo Kim, Hee don Lee, Dong hwan Lim, Jung soo Han and Chang soo Han
11.20 – 11.40 90 109
B1.3 - A simple load estimation of a patient during a standing assistance motion Takahiro Yamada, Daisuke Chugo, Shoyo Yokota and Hiroshi Hashimoto
11.40 – 12.00 52 59
B1.4 - Actuator with adjustable-rigidity and embedded sensor for an active orthosis knee joint Manuel Cestari, Daniel Sanz-Merodio, Juan Carlos Arevalo, Xavier Carrillo and Elena Garcia
12.00 – 12.20 69 153 B1.5 - A comparison of a passive and variable-damping controlled leg prosthesis in a simulated environment Jie Zhao, Karsten Berns, Roberto Baptista and Antonio Bo
12.20 – 12.40 42 43
B1.6 - Dynamic coupling characteristics of a semi-active knee prosthesis Mohammed Awad, Abbass Dehgahni, David Moser and Saeed Zahedi
Session – C1: Climbing Robots Session Chair: John Billingsley
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.20 Venue: Broadway Room
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C1.1 -‐ Climbing robot equipped with a postural adjustment mechanism for conical poles Yasuhiko Ishigure, Haruhisa Kawasaki, Taichi Kato, Katuyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Iinuma and Satoshi Ueki
11.00 – 11.20 9 309 C1.2 - Examination of surface feature analysis and terrain traversability for a wall-climbing robot Daniel Schmidt, Marcel Jung and Karsten Berns
11.20 – 11.40 59 701
C1.3 - Finite element modelling of the adhesion system of a vortex based climbing robot Filippo Bonaccorso, Salvatore D'Urso, Domenico Longo and Giovanni Muscato
11.40 – 12.00 105 375 C1.4 - Optimal design of a magnetic adhesion system for climbing robots Peter Ward, Dikai Liu, Ken Waldron and Mahdi Hassan
12.00 – 12.20 51 578
C1.5 - Studies of total adhesive force of multiple magnetic wheels for a climbing robot Arsit Boonyaprapasorn, Kaned Thung-Od, Rardchawadee Silapunt and Thavida Maneewarn
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch Break Venue: Aerial Function Centre
Session – G1: Plenary Lectures Session Chair: Gurvinder S. Virk
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 14.00 – 15.20 Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
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14.00 – 14.20 10 807 G1.1 - Human motion capture, localization and interaction based on wearable inertial and contact sensors Qilong Yuan and I-Ming Chen
14.20 – 14.40 89 833 G1.2 - Challenges of the changing robot markets Gurvinder Singh Virk, Carol Herman, Roger Bostelman and Tamas Haidegger
14.40 – 15.00 115 841 E3.4 - OFEX 2.0: Database for performance evaluation of object feature extraction algorithms Ki-Yeop Sung and Seungbin Moon
15.00 – 15.20 05 849 G1.3 - Ethical assessment of robots M. Osman Tokhi
15.20 – 15.40 Tea Break Venue: Lobby
Session – D1: Locomotion Control Session Chair: Dikai Liu
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 15.40 – 17.40 Venue: Harris Room
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15.40 – 16.00 63 495
D1.1 - A behavior-based library for locomotion control of kinematically complex robots Malte Langosz, Lorenz Quack, Alexander Dettmann, Sebastian Bartsch and Frank Kirchner
16.00 – 16.20 112 667
D1.2 - A novel hybrid spiral-dynamics random-chemotaxis optimization algorithm with application to modelling of a flexible robot manipulator Ahmad Nor Kasruddin Nasir and M. Osman Tokhi
16.20 – 16.40 66 281
D1.3 - A simplified variable admittance controller based on a virtual agonist-antagonist mechanism for robot joint control Xiaofeng Xiong, Florentin Wörgötter and Poramate Manoonpong
16.40 – 17.00 56 189
D1.4 - BFA optimisation of control parameters of a new structure two wheeled robot on inclined surface Saad Agouri, M. Osman Tokhi, Abdulla Almeshal and Khaled Goher
17.00 – 17.20 86 651
D1.5 - Force sensing and control during movement and object manipulation in MERO walking robots Ion Ion, Curaj Adrian, Vasile Aurelian, Dumitru Iulia and Stamatescu Grigore
17.20 – 17.40 41 729 D1.6 - Velocity control of serial elastic actuator based on EKF estimator and neural network Yichao Mao, Rong Xiong, Qiuguo Zhu and Jian Chu
Session – E1: Bipedal Robots Session Chair: Surya P. N. Singh
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 15.40 – 17.20 Venue: Jones Room
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15.40 – 16.00 81 529
E1.1 - A hip joint structure for biped robot with reduced DOF's of motion Satoshi Ito, Akihiro Nakazawa, Takeshi Onozawa, Shingo Nishio and Minoru Sasaki
16.00 – 16.20 37 463 E1.2 - An actuated continuous spring loaded inverted pendulum (slip) model for the analysis of bouncing gaits Daniel Jacobs, Linus Park and Kenneth Waldron
16.20 – 16.40 32 383 E1.3 - Compliance foot system design for bipedal robot walking over uneven terrain Ning Wu, Boon-Hwa Tan and Chee-Meng Chew
16.40 – 17.00 57 822 E1.4 - Estimation of the trunk attitude of a humanoid by data fusion of inertial sensors and joint encoders Siddhartha Khandelwal and Christine Chevallereau
17.00 – 17.20 93 537 E1.5 - Exploring the Lombard paradoxon in a bipedal musculoskeletal robot Katayon Radkhah and Oskar von Stryk
Session – F1: Actuation Session Chair: Abul Azad
Date: Monday 15 July 2013 Time: 15.40 – 17.20 Venue: Broadway Room
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15.40 – 16.00 47 257 F1.1 - A resilient robotic actuator based on an integrated sensorized elastomer coupling Jan Paskarbeit, Salvatore Annunziata and Axel Schneider
16.00 – 16.20 46 249 F1.2 - Bio-inspired elbow impedance modulation using a compliant technical joint drive Salvatore Annunziata, Jan Paskarbeit and Axel Schneider
16.20 – 16.40 39 693 F1.3 - Design of SMA based actuators used in robotics Muhammet Ozturk and Basaran Bahadir Kocer
16.40 – 17.00 15 327 F1.4 - Development of worm-rack driven cylindrical crawler unit Jun-ya Nagase, Koichi Suzumori and Norihiko Saga
17.00 – 17.20 54 273 F1.5 - Improvement of energy consumption by movement of center of rotation of joint Kazutoshi Tanaka, Satoshi Nishikawa and Yasuo Kuniyoshi
17.20 – 18.20 CLAWAR Association Annual General Meeting Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
Tuesday, July 16th
Keynote Address – 2 Session Chair: Giovanni Muscato
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
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09.20 – 10.20 1 3
TIRAMISU : FP7-Project for an integrated toolbox in Humanitarian Demining, focus on UGV, UAV, technical survey and close-in-detection Yvan Baudoin
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break Venue: Lobby
Session – A2: Multi-legged Robots Session Chair: Piotr Skrzypczynski
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Harris Room
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10.40 – 11.00 6 163 A2.1 - DODEKAPOD as universal intelligent structure for adaptive parallel spatial self-moving modular robots Sergey Sayapin, Anatoly Karpenko and Hiep Dang Xuan
11.00 – 11.20 95 789 A2.2 - Efficiently using RGB-D data to self-localize a small walking robot in man-made environments Piotr Skrzypczynski
11.20 – 11.40 98 555
A2.3 - Inverse dynamics for a quadruped robot locomoting along slippery surfaces Samuel Zapolsky, Evan Drumwright, Ioannis Havoutis, Jonas Buchli and Claudio Semini
11.40 – 12.00 29 451
A2.4 - Event driven ground-impedance identification for legged robots Juan Carlos Arevalo, Manuel Cestari, Daniel Sanz-Merodio and Elena Garcia
12.00 – 12.20 106 399
A2.5 - HEX-PIDERIX: A six-legged walking climbing robot to perform inspection tasks on vertical surfaces Xochitl Yamile Sandoval-Castro, Mario A. Garcia-Murillo, Jonny Paul Zabala-DePaz and Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda
12.20 – 12.40 72 503 A2.6 - Effects of neck swing motion on the body posture of a four-legged robot Koji Shibuya and Kenji Matsuhira
Session – B2: Human Assist Devices Session Chair: Abbas Dehghani
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Jones Room
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10.40 – 11.00 33 223
B2.1 - Implementation of an adjustable compliant knee joint in a lower-limb exoskeleton Daniel Sanz-Merodio, Manuel Cestari, Juan Carlos Arevalo and Elena Garcia
11.00 – 11.20 20 19
B2.2 - The designing of the exoskeleton leg with pneumatic drives Artyom Sukhanov, Valery Gradetsky, Maxim Knyazkov, Eugeniy Semyonov and Ivan Ermolov
11.20 – 11.40 21 27
B2.3 - Motion control algorithms for the exoskeleton equipped with pneumatic drives Anastasiya Kryukova, Valery Gradetsky, Maxim Knyazkov, Evgeny Semyonov, Ivan Ermolov and Artyom Sukhanov
11.40 – 12.00 75 68
B2.4 - A personal robot integrating a physically-based human motion tracking and analysis Consuelo Granata, Philippe Bidaud, Ragou Ady and Joseph Salini
12.00 – 12.20 91 232 B2.5 - New propulsion system with pneumatic artificial muscles Ivanka Veneva
12.20 – 12.40 92 117 B2.6 - Exoskeletons for assisting human walking Gurvinder Singh Virk and Indrawibawa Nyoman
Session – C2: Field Robots Session Chair: Gabriel.Aguirre-Ollinger
Date: Monday 16 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.20 Venue: Broadway Room
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10.40 – 11.00 26 85
C2.1 -‐ Transition analysis of a biped pole-climbing robot -- CLIMBOT Haifei Zhu, Yisheng Guan, Wenqiang Wu, Xuefeng Zhou and Hong Zhang
11.00 – 11.20 34 241
C2.2 - Development of a wall climbing robot using the mobile mechanism of traveling waves propagation Yutaka Mizota, Kazutoshi Takahashi, Yusuke Goto and Taro Nakamura
11.20 – 11.40 45 392
C2.3 - New design of peristaltic crawling robot with an earthworm muscular structure Hikaru Nozari, Satoshi Tesen, Norihiko Saga, Jun-Ya Nagase and Hiroki Dobashi
11.40 – 12.00 97 547
C2.4 - An automated system for systematic testing of locomotion on heterogeneous granular media Feifei Qian, Kevin Daffon, Tingnan Zhang and Daniel Goldman
12.00 – 12.20 22 171 C2.5 - Aquatic multi-robot system for lake cleaning Pranay Agrawal and Bishakh Bhattacharya
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch Break Venue: Aerial Function Centre
Keynote Address – 3 Session Chair: Manuel Armanda
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
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14.00 – 15.00 3 7 Muscle coordination of human locomotion Marcus Pandy
15.00 – 15.20 CLAWAR Association Report, CLAWAR 2014 &2015 Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
15.20 – 15.40 Tea Break Venue: Lobby
Session – D2: Locomotion Control Session Chair: Seungbin Moon
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Time: 15.40 – 17.40 Venue: Harris Room
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15.40 – 16.00 49 740
D2.1 - Low-dimensional user control of autonomously planned whole-body humanoid locomotion motion towards motor-imagery BCI application Karim Bouyarmane, Joris Vaillant and Jun Morimoto
16.00 – 16.20 35 719 D2.2 - Model-based elastic tendon control for electrically actuated musculoskeletal bipedal robots Katayon Radkhah and Oskar von Stryk
16.20 – 16.40 40 625
D2.3 - Neural control of a three-legged reconfigurable robot with omnidirectional wheels Poramate Manoonpong, Florentin Wörgötter and Pudit Laksanacharoen
16.40 – 17.00 64 659 D2.4 - Object grasping with dual flexible manipulator using genetic algorithms Mohd Abdul Hadi Hassan and M. Osman Tokhi
17.00 – 17.20 77 519
D2.5 - Previewed impedance adaptation to coordinate upper-limb trajectory tracking and postural balance in disturbed conditions Aurelien Ibanez, Philippe Bidaud and Vincent Padois
17.20 – 17.40 55 179
D2.6 Hybrid spiral dynamic bacterial chemotaxis optimisation for hybrid fuzzy logic control of a novel two wheeled robotic vehicle Abdullah Almeshal, Khaled Goher, M. Osman Tokhi and Ahmad N. K. Nasir
Session – E2: Bipedal Locomotion Session Chair: Giovanni Muscato
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Time: 15.40 – 17.40 Venue: Jones Room
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15.40 – 16.00 104 125
E2.1 - Hopping machine: A tool for human running simulation and for legged robots and exoskeleton design André H. Maia, Sérgio Laquini Jr, Antônio Bento Filho, Victor Hugo Brito Fernandes and Elena Garcia
16.00 – 16.20 76 101 E2.2 - A mobile 3d vision-based embedded system for robust estimation and analysis of human locomotion Cong Zong, Philippe Bidaud and Xavier Clady
16.20 – 16.40 14 571 E2.3 - Shuffle turn of humanoid robot simulation based on EMG measurement Masanao Koeda, Takayuki Serizawa and Yuta Matsui
16.40 – 17.00 60 487
E2.4 - Walking despite the passive compliance: Techniques for using conventional pattern generators to control intrinsically compliant humanoid robots Przemyslaw Kryczka, Petar Kormushev, Kenji Hashimoto, Hun-ok Lim, Nikolaos Tsagarakis, Darwin Caldwell and Atsuo Takanishi
17.00 – 17.20 8 411 E2.5 - Reinforcement learning of bipedal lateral behaviour and stability control with ankle-roll activation Bernhard Hengst
17.20 – 17.40 11 419
E2.6 - Obstacle/gap detection and terrain classification of walking robots based on a 2D laser range finder Patrick Kesper, Eduard Grinke, Frank Hesse, Florentin Wörgötter and Poramate Manoonpong
Session – F2: Configuration Session Chair: Daisuke Chugo
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013 Time: 15.40 – 18.00 Venue: Broadway Room
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15.40 – 16.00 7 141
F2.1 - Integrated design, modelling and analysis of two-wheeled wheelchair for disabled Abqori Aula, Tareq M. Altalmas, Salmiah Ahmad, Rini Akmeliawati, Shahrul Naim Sidek and M. Osman Tokhi
16.00 – 16.20 67 585 F2.2 - Quantitative kinematic performance comparison of reconfigurable leg-wheeled vehicles Aliakbar Alamdari, Robin Herin and Venkat Krovi
16.20 – 16.40 107 749
F2.3 - State to state motion planning for underactuated systems using a modified rapidly exploring random tree algorithm Rina Shvartsman, Ying Tan and Denny Oetomo
16.40 – 17.00 108 633 F2.4 - The passive dynamics of walking and brachiating robots: Results on the topology and stability of passive gaits Nelson Rosa Jr. and K. M. Lynch
17.00 – 17.20 88 359
F2.5 - Layered body for flexible mono-tread mobile track Takafumi Haji, Shinichi Araki, Tetsuya Kinugasa, Koji Yoshida, Hisanori Amano, Ryota Hayashi, Kenichi Tokuda and Masatsugu Iribe
17.20 – 17.40 28 643
F2.6 - Modeling and analysis of robotic grasping using soft fingertips Akhtar Khurshid, Abdul Ghafoor, M Afzaal Malik and Yasar Ayaz
17.40 – 18.00 23 677
F2.6 - Modelling of movement of the three-link robot with operated friction forces on the horizontal surface Sergey Jatsun, Lyudmila Volkova, Grigoriy Naumov and Andrey Yatsun
19.30 – 22.00 (Boarding 19.15) Banquet Venue: Matilda III, Pier 26, Cockle Bay
Wednesday, July 17th
Keynote Address – 4 Session Chair: Philippe Bidaud
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
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09.20 – 10.20 2 6 Anthropomorphic biological equipment Yoshihiko Nakamura
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break Venue: Lobby
Session – A3: Walking Robots Session Chair: Piotr Skrzypczynski
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Harris Room
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10.40 – 11.00 27 443
A3.1 - Local reflex generation for obstacle negotiation in quadrupedal locomotion Michele Focchi, Victor Barasuol, Ioannis Havoutis, Jonas Buchli, Claudio Semini and Darwin G. Caldwell
11.00 – 11.20 78 773 A3.2 - Method for estimating location and yaw angle of a six-legged robot for omni-directional walking control Hiroaki Uchida, Kouhei Takahashi and Masaya Suzuki
11.20 – 11.40 12 427
A3.3 - Motion control for the 6-legged robot in extreme conditions Yury Golubev, Victor Korianov, Vladimir Pavlovsky and Alexey Panchenko
11.40 – 12.00 94 797
A3.4 - Recognition of 3D objects for walking robot equipped with multisense-SL sensor head Janusz Bedkowski, Karol Majek, Andrzej Masłowski and Piotr Kaczmarek
12.00 – 12.20 31 459 A3.5 - The turtle, a legged submerged inspection vehicle John Billingsley
12.20 – 12.40 38 335 A3.6 - Unconventional five-legged robot for agile locomotion Marek Wasik, Mikolaj Wasielica and Piotr Skrzypczynski
Session – B3: Human Interactive Devices Session Chair: Daniel Schmidt
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Jones Room
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10.40 – 11.00 102 291
B3.1 - Determination of trajectories using non-invasive BCI techniques in 3D environments T. Garcia-Egea, C. A. Díaz-Hernández, J. Lopez-Coronado and J. L. Contreras-Vidal
11.00 – 11.20 65 85
B3.2 - Dynamics of human lower limbs using CGA data and BSIP predictive equations Antônio Bento Filho, Victor Hugo Brito Fernandes, André Hemerly Maia, Elena Garcia, Anselmo Frizera and Teodiano Bastos
11.20 – 11.40 99 563
B3.3 - LAURON V: Optimized leg configuration for the design of a bio-inspired walking robot Arne Roennau, Georg Heppner, Lars Pfotzer and Ruediger Dillmann
11.40 – 12.00 16 11 B3.4 - Optimization-based gait planning for wearable power-assist locomotor by specifying via-points Chang Hyun Sung, Takahiro Kagawa, Yoji Uno
12.00 – 12.20 68 593 B3.5 - Enhancing personal electric vehicles using reconfigurable design Robin S. Hérin, Aliakbar Alamdari and Venkat N. Krovi
12.20 – 12.40 79 599 B3.6 - Hand-manoeuvred wheelchair using wheels fitted with feet for enhanced mobility T. Okada, H. Wada, N. Mimura, T. Shimizu and K. Nagata
Session – C3: Field Robots Session Chair: Seungbin Moon
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Time: 10.40 – 12.40 Venue: Broadway Room
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10.40 – 11.00 87 617
C3.1 - Compliance contact control of mecanum wheeled mobile robot for improving safety Naotaka Nishigami, Naoyuki Takesue, Rikiya Makino, Kouhei Kikuchi, Kousyun Fujiwara and Hideo Fujimoto
11.00 – 11.20 13 199 C3.2 - Compliant backbone structures in mobile robots Nicole Kern, Richard Bachmann, Ryan Michols, Ronald Triolo and Roger Quinn
11.20 – 11.40 48 265
C3.3 - Derivation of mathematical models of the peristaltic crawling robot for maintenance of a mixing tank Yosuke Morishita, Daisuke Sannohe, Tatsuya Osawa, Tomoya Tanaka and Taro Nakamura
11.40 – 12.00 17 301 C3.4 - Development of a peristaltic crawling inspection robot with pneumatic artificial muscles for a 25A elbow pipe Tatsuya Kishi, Taro Nakamura and Megumi Ikeuchi
12.00 – 12.20 18 207
C3.5 - Development of two types of maintenance robots for a jacket inside a mixing tank Tomoya Tanaka, Taro Nakamura, Daisuke Sannohe, Yosuke Morisita and Mitsugu Tanaka
12.20 – 12.40 96 367 C3.6 Surface adaptation robot for defect detection by performing continuously an ultrasound wheel probe Hernando Leon-Rodriguez
14.40 – 14.00 Lunch Break Venue: Aerial Function Centre
Session – D3: Sensing and Location Session Chair: Lars Pfotzer
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Time: 14.00 – 15.00 Venue: Harris Room
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14.00 – 14.20 84 781
D3.1 - Cooperative multi-robot localization with radio-based sensors Lars Pfotzer, Soeren Bohn, Jan Oberlaender, Georg Heppner, Arne Roennau and Ruediger Dillmann
14.20 – 14.40 44 51
D3.2 - Covered area detection based on brightness change of inner camera images for crawler robot Kenichi Tokuda, Tatsuya Hirayama, Tetsuya Kinugasa, Takafumi Haji and Hisanori Amano
14.40 – 15.00 113 317
D3.3 development of humanoid robot teaching system based on a RGB-D sensor Chuntao Leng, Qixin Cao, Bo Fang, Yang Yang and Zhen Huang
Session – E3: Sensing and Feature Extraction Session Chair: Hernando Leon-Rodriguez
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Time: 14.00 – 15.00 Venue: Jones Room
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14.00 – 14.20 70 351 E3.1 - CAMINANTE: A platform for sensitive walking Vadim Chernyak, Ennio Clarretti, Stephen Nestinger and Euardo Torres-Jara
14.20 – 14.40 36 815 E3.2 - Real-time detection of the activity of a dog Germain Lemasson, Dominique Duhaut and Philippe Lucidarme
14.40 – 15.00 61 77 E3.3 - Humanoid robot programming through face expressions Alvaro Uribe, Hernando Leon-Rodriguez and Byron Perez
Session – F3: Wheeled Systems Session Chair: Khaled M. Goher
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2013 Time: 14.00 – 15.00 Venue: Broadway Room
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14.00 – 14.20 82 609 F3.1 - Design and locomotion modes of a small wheel-legged robot Ioan Doroftei and Ion Ion
14.20 – 14.40 58 479
F3.2 - Design of leaping behavior in a planar model with three compliant and rolling leg Ya-Cheng Chou, Ke-Jung Huang, Wei-Shun Yu and Pei-Chun Lin
14.40 – 15.00 110 133
F3.3 - Design of a reconfigurable wheelchair with a sit-to-stand facility for a disabled kid K. M. Goher, S. Al-Harthi, M. Al-Rashdi, A. Al-Kindi, L. Al-Hadhrami, M. Shafiq, A. Al Yahmadi and S. Fadhallah
15.00 – 15.20 Tea Break Venue: Lobby
15.20 – 15.40 Closure Venue: Harris, Jones, Broadway Rooms
15.40 – Laboratory Tour Centre for Autonomous Systems, University of Technology, Sydney Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney
Directions to Pier 26
Our banquet will be located on a harbor cruise boat. We will board at Pier 26, which is in an area called Darling Harbour. If you have had a chance to look around the city you may have visited the Sydney Aquarium. The boat will be moored right in front of the aquarium. From the Building 10 lobby go out the front doors and turn left to walk the short distance to Thomas Street. Turn right on Thomas Street and follow it until it ends in Harris Street. Turn left on Harris Street and walk to the intersection with traffic lights. That is Ultimo Road. Turn right onto Ultimo Road and continue through the next set of traffic lights until you get to the second set of lights, which is Quay Street. You should have the UTS library on your left as you turn left into Quay Street. Walk down Quay Street until it ends in an open area. The building on your right houses Paddy’s Market, which is a good, inexpensive place to shop for souvenirs etc. Continue straight ahead and you will see a flight of steps going up to a monorail station. Go up the steps but do not go left toward the station. Going right takes you onto an elevated walkway past a parking garage on your left, and the Sydney Entertainment Centre on your right. At the end of the walkway continue on in the same direction under a highway viaduct. You should see the Sydney Convention Centre on your left as you continue toward a circular patch of grass with circular paths around both sides. This is called Tumbalong Park. It doesn’t matter which side you go, but let’s choose the left side that has a circular channel with fountains in the path. When you get to the other side of Tumbalong Park (diametrically opposite where you started) turn left along a straight path, also with a channel and fountains. You will see a large children’s playground on your right. After passing the playground turn right up a couple of steps, and then left under a complex of highway viaducts past the Tourist Information Office to your right. You will see a body of water in front of you. That is called Cockle Bay. It is an extension of the inlet known as Darling Harbour.
Go along the walkway on the right side of Cockle Bay past a number of restaurants. You will see a bridge crossing the bay in front of you. That is Pyrmont Bridge. It is now a pedestrian bridge, having been replaced by the system of viaducts you walked under.
Walk under Pyrmont Bridge and Matilda III should be right in front of you. You will see the aquarium building on the other side of the mooring. We need to be ready to board at 7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm departure. The walk takes 25 to 30 minutes.
For those who do not wish to walk go right after leaving Building 10 to Broadway, and turn left to the bus stop in front of Building 1. Look for a 412, or 413 bus (Downtown/King Street Wharf). There is a 413 bus scheduled at 6.36 pm. Take this bus right to the end of the route (King Street Wharf). The official stop is in a little street called Cuthbert Place. It is scheduled to arrive at 6.57 pm. Some drivers don’t want to stop there but prefer to pull around the corner into Lime St. Either way, you want the corner of Lime Street and Cuthbert Place. Walk down the stairs towards the water. You will see Sydney Wildlife World on your left. It’s easily identified by the mesh aviary on the roof. Turn left along the boardwalk past Wildlife World. The walkway turns left past the aquarium, and you should see Matilda III right in front of you. Remember, you do need to purchase a bus ticket ahead of time from a newsagent, or the ticket office in Railway Square behind the bus shelters.
Also, be warned that Sydney buses rarely adhere closely to schedule. I would be at the bus stop at least five minutes ahead of time. If the bus does not appear before ten minutes after the scheduled time I would bail and flag down a taxi – pretty easy to do on Broadway.
After the cruise, those with hotels near UTS can return the same way. Darling Harbour hotels will be visible from the wharf. There is a taxi rank in Lime Street right behind Wildlife World for those who prefer that.